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by smt88 8mo ago
Sounds familiar. "Sorry maam, I know you're miscarrying, but you should really find a pharmacist that fills prescriptions for reproductive issues."
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Uh... good? He used his money and influence for an attempted coup and then an attack on the capitol building that resulted in multiple deaths and hundreds of convictions for things like sedition. If a private business can't choose to s
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Primary, idiopathic insomnia doesn't really exist. It's almost always anxiety, although a few other mental and physical conditions can also cause it. But more likely anxiety.
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An astonishing number of people use Facebook daily, and Instagram is also a huge revenue generator. The company itself is thriving despite terrible products.
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You can't really isolate China's emissions. They manufacture a huge proportion of the goods the rest of the world needs to operate. The green countries are essentially outsourcing their pollution to China.
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The article answers that question. Do you want commenters to summarize the article for you? It would be easier to just click and read for yourself
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It's very obvious that the anger is about POTUS using his office for rug-pulls, not that rug-pulls are happening in the first place
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That context doesn't help me at all. Is a "really strong" 12yo in contention to win this particular competition that a 35yo won?
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These regulations don't and can't ban that. The companies can say they're "selling" or "donating" them abroad.
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What country has a clothing shortage? Be specific. The most desperate povert I've ever seen was in India. You know what people were using to make tents to live in? Clothes. Poor people have been making clothes for thousands of years wi
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by smt88 8mo ago
Any name brand would rather send their unsold clothes to a landfill in India rather than allow their wealthy customers to see poor people wearing the clothes.
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What developing country do you think has a clothing shortage?
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by smt88 8mo ago
I suspect this end up like US "recycling" of plastic: pay another country to "reuse/recycle" the waste, and that country then dumps it in a landfill, dumps it in the ocean, or burns it.
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by smt88 8mo ago
Poor countries don't need clothes. They have clothes. It's just more (mostly plastic pollution) that fills their landfills and rivers. https://atmos.earth/art-and-culture/the-messy-truth/
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Those are for immunization against viruses. They're not the same kind of vaccine that will be used to cure many types of cancer.
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> ok for the government to take away peoples bodily autonomy, as long as it benefits the economy No. That's a straw man and you know it. I'm against forced vaccinations. No one in the US was forced to be vaccinated. However,
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> If we made everyone over 300lbs lose 100lbs, we’d also see those benefits. > Same if we limited the amount of cigarettes or alcohol people purchased. We already attempt to do these things through public health campaigns and laws
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This is specifically a political attempt by RFK Jr. to stop people from getting mRNA flu vaccines.
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I can't find a specific source right now, but I remember reading that RFK's war on mRNA vaccines only applies the ones used for flu/Covid. They haven't gone after cancer vaccines. This press release seems to confirm this
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> I think RFK is actually mentally damaged He is, and he's publicly admitted to both mercury poisoning (which leads to cognitive impairments and potentially insanity) and having part of his brain eaten by a worm[1]. 1. https:&#x2
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by smt88 8mo ago
- Reduced demand on emergency rooms and other limited medical resources - Decreased insurance claims, which are paid for by other patients in the form of premium increases - Prevented burdens on taxpayers from illness or premature deaths of
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Yes, that town of 10,000 is probably rural, and in the study I linked, people were not moving to those towns. They were moving to actual cities. What are we even talking about here?
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by smt88 9mo ago
> ‘Smaller cities’ in the US are what most of the world calls ‘rural’. What? No it's not. In the study I linked and also for most people's purposes, "smaller city" is something like Milwaukee or Pittsburgh, a place
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by smt88 9mo ago
> Rent is also significantly higher [in a larger city] For most people, pay is also significantly higher. Most employers adjust salary based on location.
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> After all, the appeal of biggest cities was always, at least to me, the availability of white collar, highly paid jobs You are definitely unusual. Since remote work became more common because of Covid, remote workers have moved withi
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They started working on humanoid robots because Musk always has to have the next moonshot, trillion-dollar idea to promise "in 3 years" to keep the stock price high. As soon as Waymo's massive robotaxi lead became undeniable,
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TV productions are a product, not a service. Apple TV is the service.
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> It's likely safer but not meaningfully enough to make much difference, as it's still obviously very bad for you There's no evidence that it's safer at all. Reynolds lost a big lawsuit over its American Spirit bran
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Literally every source (including the tobacco companies themselves, who have been cowed by legal pressure) say that no cigarette is safer than any other. It's the tobacco itself that's the problem. This is the settlement that Natu
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by smt88 9mo ago
This is absolutely wrong[1]. Please don't spread dangerous falsehoods without researching first. Even American Spirit's website denies that "organic" or natural tobacco is any safer. 1. https://www.fda.gov&#x2

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